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Global Financial Crisis: U.S, Greek, Pigs
Banking in Financial Services
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Global Financial Crisis By
Lavina B Israni,
Roll No. 15,
SYBFM,
Jai Hind College

Index

 Introduction 1

 The U.S. Economic Crisis 1

 The Greek Economic Crisis 5

 The PIGS Economic Crisis 7

 Conclusion 8

 The Structure of the Indian Banking Industry 9 Introduction

The turmoil in the international financial markets of advanced economies, that started around mid-2007, has exacerbated substantially since August 2008. The financial market crisis has led to the collapse of major financial institutions and is now beginning to impact the real economy in the advanced economies. As this crisis is unfolding, credit markets appear to be drying up in the developed world India, like most other emerging market economies, has so far, not been seriously affected by the recent financial turmoil in developed economies. The global financial crisis, brewing for a while, really started to show its effects in the middle of 2007 and into 2008. Around the world stock markets have fallen, large financial institutions have collapsed or been bought out, and governments in even the wealthiest nations have had to come up with rescue packages to bail out their financial systems.
On the one hand many people are concerned that those responsible for the financial problems are the ones being bailed out, while on the other hand, a global financial meltdown will affect the livelihoods of almost everyone in an increasingly inter-connected world.

The U.S. Economic Crisis
Introduction :
The U.S. economy is currently experiencing its worst crisis since the Great Depression. The crisis started in the home mortgage market, especially the market for so-called “subprime” mortgages, and is now spreading beyond subprime to prime mortgages, commercial real estate, corporate junk bonds, and other forms of debt. Total



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